Major Misconceptions About The Universe Clarified

5/30/2014

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Back in March, the science
world celebrated as scientists declared the first finding of gravitational
waves; a smoking gun for the Big Bang. Researchers consider than in a time
period durable 10-34 seconds, the Universe stretched 100 trillion trillion times
until it touched the huge size of… a marble. The gravitational waves come from variations
of background radiation from this inflation age. With as excited as everybody
was about that announcement, how much do we actually know about the expansion of
the Universe? In the newest video for Veritasium, Derek Muller describes some
of the major misunderstandings that people have about the Universe:

-How can the Universe inflate
faster than the speed of light if Einstein said not anything could?

-If objects are stirring apart
faster than the speed of light, how do we even obtain the light to see it?

-How did the Big Bang occur
only 13.8 billion years ago if the visible Universe has a diameter of 93
billion light years?

-The Universe appears to be
infinite, so how can there be one minute initial point?

-If there’s nothing outside
the Universe, what is it growing into?

Check out the below video for
these answers and much more:

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